Racial bias in AI should be the immediate concern

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Smart windows could be the next big thing in renewable heating

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Why timekeeping is now on the verge of a giant leap forward in accuracy

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A rising tide of e-waste, made worse by AI, threatens our health, the environment and the economy

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Generative AI is making traditional ways to measure business success obsolete

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Why children play the same game or watch the same show over (and over) again

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AI without limits threatens public trust — here are some guidelines for preserving communications integrity

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Survey on AI finds most people want it regulated, but trust in government remains low

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To really narrow digital divides, Canada should consistently fund adult education programs

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Canadian news media are suing OpenAI for copyright infringement, but will they win?

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Adequate pay for graduate student researchers will require restructuring research budgets

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Social media companies won’t be able to compel people to provide digital or government-issued ID to verify age

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Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 just became law. How it will work remains a mystery

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Gamified investing apps are becoming more popular — but can be risky for young investors

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How social media is reshaping human connection

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If TikTok poses a grave threat to national security, why are Canadians told they can keep using it?

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Researchers have invented a new system of logic that could boost critical thinking and AI

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AI is changing the way we think

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The reasons for shutting down TikTok in Canada appear tenuous at best

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Youth social media: Why proposed Ontario and federal legislation won’t fix harms related to data exploitation

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Updates to Canada’s Copyright Act bring consumers closer to the ‘right to repair’ your devices

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How AI Could Influence US Voters

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Did a Canadian developer really invent bitcoin? A new HBO show explores an intriguing theory

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Talking to dead people through AI: the business of ‘digital resurrection’ might not be helpful, ethical… or even legal

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Commercial whaling and climate change are inhibiting evolutionary change in Arctic whales

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Apple Intelligence will help AI become as commonplace as word processing

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How your online world could change if big tech companies like Google are forced to break up

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California’s governor blocked landmark AI safety laws. Here’s why it’s such a key ruling for the future of AI worldwide

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Generative AI can boost innovation – but only when humans are in control

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A new generation of telescopes will probe the ‘unknown unknowns’ that could transform our knowledge of the universe

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Siloed climate data needs to be opened up and shared

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AI to Revolutionize Weather Prediction, but It’s up to Us to Act on It

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We tend to keep away from midges and – even when in swarms – they tend to keep away from each other

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I was a beta tester for the Nobel prize-winning AlphaFold AI – it’s going to revolutionise health research

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Jupiter’s moons hide giant subsurface oceans − Europa Clipper is one of 2 missions on their way to see if these moons could support life

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When AI plays favourites: How algorithmic bias shapes the hiring process

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Transparency and trust: How news consumers in Canada want AI to be used in journalism

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Where Can You Order Crypto & Blockchain Marketing Services?

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Seasonal change can affect people’s moods — and their moral values

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Stay secure and prepared: Cyber Security Awareness Month

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Scientists Discover a New Way to Break Down Plastics

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AI has a stupid secret: we’re still not sure how to test for human levels of intelligence

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AI probably isn’t the big smartphone selling point that Apple and other tech giants think it is

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Boeing can recover from its Starliner troubles, but it can’t afford any other misfires

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Defending Canada: The battle against AI-driven disinformation

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OpenAI’s Strawberry program is reportedly capable of reasoning. It might be able to deceive humans

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New solar cells break efficiency record – they could eventually supercharge how we get energy from the Sun

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How to archive your photos in the digital age

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Why Microsoft’s Copilot AI falsely accused court reporter of crimes he covered

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Apple, Google, Meta and Microsoft’s Data Centre Emissions May Be 7.62 Times Higher Than Reported

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Financial incentives alone are not enough to get more heat pumps in homes

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Plants can grow in near-darkness, new research shows – here are three promising benefits

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Apple’s iPhone 16 launch shows AI is shaking up the tech giant’s core market

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The Earth’s inner core is a total mystery – here’s how we’re starting to solve it

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How cyberattacks on offshore wind farms could create huge problems

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How AI features in smartphones are reducing their dependence on the cloud

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Scientists Present Europe’s New Greenhouse Gas Budget

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Scientists Invent a Healthier and More Sustainable Chocolate

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How Google’s New AI Model Can Help Us Detect Diseases — Based on Coughs

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How AI can dramatically reduce the time it takes to make VAR offside calls in Premier League football matches

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Belief in alien visits to Earth is spiralling out of control – here’s why that’s so dangerous

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Artificial intelligence should not be allowed to adjudicate cases in Canada’s Federal Court

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A New Era in Environmental Accountability: SpaceX Launches Methane-Tracking Satellite

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Vegan Cheese That Tastes Like Cheese? These Startups May Have Cracked the Code

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How a futuristic material is able to change its properties from soft to rigid, and back again

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Number of Ethereum Holders Reaches All-Time High

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Psychomatics: A New Frontier in Understanding AI

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Our Turing Test for androids will judge how lifelike humanoid robots can be

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AI could be the breakthrough that allows humanoid robots to jump from science fiction to reality

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Elon Musk’s Tesla is promising to sell a humanoid robot. It could be the first of many

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How AI can help us spot its own fakes

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SpaceX space junk crashed onto Saskatchewan farmland, highlighting a potential impending disaster

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We need to consider alternatives to dark matter that better explain cosmological observations

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How AI Can Help Reduce Mortality Rates

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Nanoscopic motor proteins in the brain build the physical structures of memory

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Social media warning labels and school cell phone bans: Do they unlock better youth mental health?

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The Benefits of a Unified Tool Chain for Mobile App Testing

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NatureMetrics: Demonstrating the Power of eDNA Analysis

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Vosita: The Rise of Digital Healthcare

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Canada needs ethical data governance in agriculture

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Could Perovskites Reshape the Solar Industry?

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Startup Spike: Helping Healthcare Businesses Integrate AI Into Their Operations

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Federal legislation needs further amendments to protect children’s privacy

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How AI is advancing early childhood learning

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100 years ago, our understanding of the universe exploded

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Apeel: Fighting Food Waste With Plants

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Bower App: Rewarding Recycling

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DNA analysis reveals that there are more species of parasitoid wasps than anticipated

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Harnessing Technology to Raise Climate Ambition

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Using smart devices to schedule on-demand public transportation can save time and money

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How Mycocycle Turns Industrial Waste Into Low-Carbon Raw Materials — Using Fungi

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Startup Sorted: Pioneering AI-Powered Solutions for the Plastic Problem

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OpenAI Unveils GPT-4o: The Next Leap in AI Interaction

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To make AI safe, governments must regulate data collection

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Wild bees are under threat from domestic bees, invasive species, pathogens and climate change — but we can help

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Every Fifth Car Sold Globally in 2024 Will Be Electric, IEA Projects

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How AI and Robotics Can Make Maritime Shipping More Sustainable

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Websites deceive users by deliberately hiding the extent of data collection and sharing

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Is AI enabling our next Renaissance?

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The federal government’s proposed AI legislation misses the mark on protecting Canadians

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Quebec can become a leader in responsible artificial intelligence

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A $4-billion idea gone wrong: the Canada Digital Adoption Program

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Eclipses were once associated with the death of kings — attempting to predict this played a key role in the birth of astronomy

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The total solar eclipse is a cosmic spectacle well worth the hype

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When you can’t trust your eyes anymore

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Why Ontario school boards are suing social media platforms for causing an attention crisis

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Generative AI is changing the legal profession – future lawyers need to know how to use it

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Stellar murder: when stars destroy and eat their own planets

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AI’s excessive water consumption threatens to drown out its environmental contributions

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The Online Harms Act doesn’t go far enough to protect democracy in Canada

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Floating crystals slow stellar aging — for some stars, this can delay death by billions of years

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How Startup Cellcolabs Could Revolutionize Stem Cell Production

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Total solar eclipses provide an opportunity to engage with science, culture and history

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How Automated Robots Are Transforming Manufacturing Processes

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Global warming may be behind an increase in the frequency and intensity of cold spells

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Regulating AI in schools could be a top class innovation

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Governments’ Role in Regulating and Using AI for the SDGs

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AI and the Gig Economy Deliver an Opportunity

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How Robotics and AI Are Reshaping Construction

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Health-care AI: The potential and pitfalls of diagnosis by app

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Canada’s Genetic Non-Discrimination Act has only had a limited impact on the use of genetic information by life insurers

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Extreme environments are coded into the genomes of the organisms that live there

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OpenAI’s new generative tool Sora could revolutionize marketing and content creation

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Food Tech: Are 3D-Printed Food and Meatless Meat the Future?

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ArriveCAN should drive deeper reforms, not just contracting oversight

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B.C.’s lack of snow foretells summer drought woes

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Town prepping for once-in-a-lifetime solar eclipse this spring

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‘Here we are talking about drought in February’

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Artificial intelligence needs to be trained on culturally diverse datasets to avoid bias

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The use of technology in policing should be regulated to protect people from wrongful convictions

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The video game industry is booming. Why are there so many layoffs?

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Genetic diseases: How scientists are working to make DNA repair (almost) a piece of cake

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How Commercial Flights Could Go Electric

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Canada’s got AI talent. Let’s keep it here

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Why now is the time to address humanity’s impact on the moon

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The first Neuralink brain implant signals a new phase for human-computer interaction

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Plastic fibres are a dangerous junk food for tiny ocean creatures

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Disaster communications can be more effective when using different messaging strategies

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Clean Energy Tech: 6 Trends in 2024

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Animal Health: How AI and Drones Make a Big Difference

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Canada’s tech policies and priorities aren’t doing enough to make citizens safer online

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Fowl language: AI is learning to analyze chicken communications to help us understand what all the clucking’s about

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Canada should not fall behind on implementing safety measures for children online

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CES 2024: Top 5 Green Tech Products

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Larger and more frequent solar storms will make for potential disruptions and spectacular auroras on Earth

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How much life has ever existed on Earth?

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Top 3 AI Productivity Tools of 2023

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A clearer right-to-repair picture emerges in Canada, but uncertainties remain

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After seeing the struggle of Palestinians in Gaza, TikTok users are learning about Islam

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Climate change solutions require collaboration between politicians, scientists and entrepreneurs

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Meta charging European users to remove ads is a privacy red herring

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Tesla recalls over two million vehicles, but it needs to address confusing marketing

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Dreaming may have evolved as a strategy for co-operative survival

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Gene Editing Has Arrived

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Canadian scientists are still being muzzled, and that risks undermining climate policy

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How ChatGPT can help you do archival research — but never replace archivists

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Want to know if your data are managed responsibly? Here are 15 questions to help you find out

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Microsoft’s ban on third-party controllers on the Xbox excludes some disabled gamers from using the device

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Canada’s Fall Economic Statement signals the ‘right to repair’ your tech devices

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Why Canada’s Smart Cities Challenge is missing the mark

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Allegations of threats and lying perturb the federal public service

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The federal government needs a digital transformation

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Is Buying Solar Powered Speakers Worth It?

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Tech startups with diverse founding teams are more likely to seek IPO or acquisition

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Google’s $100 million to Canada’s news industry is a small price to pay to avoid regulation

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Chief information officer Catherine Luelo resigns from job revamping federal tech

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Carbon Removal: Startup Eoin’s ‘Enhanced Rock Weathering’ technique

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The 15-minute city is a popular planning approach, but relies on ableist assumptions

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ChatGPT or Meta: Which AI Chatbot Is More Sustainable?

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Long hours and low wages: the human labour powering AI’s development

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NASA’s first successful recovery of asteroid samples may reveal information about the origins of the universe

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Pinpointing Carbon Emissions Like Never Before: World’s First CO2 Monitoring Satellite Is Now in Orbit

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Birds’ nests express their unique style and past experiences

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The experiences of older drivers can help design cleaner and safer cars

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The Sky’s Not the Limit for One Health on Earth

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Over the past six years, governments proposed launching over one million satellites, but where will they all go?

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Cobalt nanoparticles could become a significant player in the pursuit of clean energy

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How Canadian companies can use tech to identify forced labour in their supply chains

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How One Startup Is Driving the Rail Industry to a Greener Future

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The 23andMe data breach reveals the vulnerabilities of our interconnected data

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Collectively, we spend only 45 minutes daily on the activities that produce the most pollution

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How AI Could Help Plan and Execute a Biological Attack

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Is Beanless Coffee the Future?

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Fast Tech ‘Seriously Rivalling Fast Fashion’: How Bad Is the E-Waste Crisis?

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Governments must act more urgently to attract needed digital talent

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The next gold rush is far, far away — and closer than you think

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How startups are leading the way to integrate ESG principles into society

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The risk of waiting to regulate AI is greater than the risk of acting too quickly

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The time for a law on artificial intelligence has come

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How to legislate on artificial intelligence in Canada?

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Who has jurisdiction over artificial intelligence: Ottawa or the provinces?

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The ethics of artificial intelligence await the law

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Microplastics Found in Clouds: What Now?

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Canada needs to accelerate its transition to renewable energy

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Scale-up renewable energy co-operatives to energize the nation

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Sustainable Battle of the Brands: Toyota vs. Tesla

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Why Einstein must be wrong: In search of the theory of gravity

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Family vlogs can entertain, empower and exploit

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Poland Approves Its First Nuclear Power Plant

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NASA’s Capsule With Asteroid Bennu Sample to Return to Earth

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